Etihad Airways increases Middle East and North Africa capacity to cater to growing summer demand

Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Etihad Airways is increasing capacity between its Abu Dhabi hub and key markets of Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Casablanca and Rabat to cater to the peak June – September travel period, while additional services to Dammam will be year-round.

Extra flights
and the deployment of bigger aircraft in the Middle East and North Africa will
provide local guests with more choice and greater convenience travelling during
the holiday season.

Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will initially be served with an
additional three morning flights a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from
June 26, rising to a daily service on July 9. The capacity increase to the
largest city in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province will raise frequency on the route to four daily
services year-round.

With the Amman route already
upgraded to a Boeing 787 on each of the current daily services, an additional
daily early morning flight serving the Jordanian capital will operate between
June 25 and September 30.

Four extra flights will be
introduced on the Beirut route on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and
Sundays between August 1 and September 10, taking frequency up from seven to 11
services a week. Effective August 1, seven of the flights to Lebanon’s capital
city will operate with the state-of-the-art Boeing 787 featuring 299 seats.

Egypt’s capital Cairo, one
of Etihad Airways’ most popular North African destinations, will have an
additional seven midday flights a week, taking frequency up to five daily
services between August 1 and September 10.

In Morocco, the daily Casablanca services will be upgraded
from an Airbus A330-300 to A340-600 aircraft between August 1 and September 10.
And frequency to Morocco’s capital city of Rabat will increase from two
to three flights a week with a new Sunday service operating between August 6
and September 3.

Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways
Chief Executive Officer, said: “As we build up to the peak travel season and well
into the holiday period, we are delighted to provide our local guests more
choice with additional flights between Abu Dhabi and some of our key markets
across the Middle East and North Africa.

“By further aligning our capacity
with demand during the busy upcoming months, the extra services will help
facilitate our guests’ travel to and from these cities and our popular
connecting destinations in the GCC, Asia, Australia and the Indian Subcontinent.”